THESE artists are used to painting outdoors on stone, brick and cement.

So it is rare for them—and about 20 others from the urban art group Laneway Collective—to venture indoors for an exhibition in Fremantle this month.

In fact, it is the group’s first indoor display. The year-old collective, based in Perth’s CBD, is best known for painting 30 walls on Grosvenor Lane in Mt Lawley late last year as part of the Beaufort Street Festival.

Founder Mel McVee says the laneway “art gallery” gives them street cred and opens doors to more projects.

According to Facebook, more than 680 are going to the month-long Little Creatures exhibition, which started Thursday.

• Fieldey, Mel McVee and James Giddy are among about 20 artists from Laneway Collective, an urban arts group based in Perth’s CBD, behind an exhibition at Fremantle’s Little Creatures brewery and eatery. Photo by Matthew Dwyer

“That means about 10 people are coming,” jokes Fieldey, who has painted “old-school, tattoo-style characters” on skateboards and surfboards. In one of her paintings you can see human insides—guts and all, plus a few mutations, like an eyeball poking from a stomach socket.

Fine artist James Giddy is known for his murals, and painted water birds on the Water Corporation’s Leederville building as part of FORM’s Public2015 project in April. Following the animal theme, he has some smaller pieces going up at Fremantle, including an acrylic sky-blue rhino.

Exhibition artwork ranges from $50 to $2000. Media includes oil, acrylic, photography, prints and spray paint.

by EMMIE DOWLING